Now this is a stamp I have trouble with. Is it truly a Discworld Stamp when Red Nose Day applies over here? Well Colin found some DW magic going on one day. Some ink from the Penny Reds had found its way onto the Penny Blacks. Not only that, but there were even some of the corner cabbages following the same migration route. Bernard showed the stamps to Terry who approved them as Red Nose Day fund raisers. The cabbages it was decided were too undignified for Vetinari. So it all fell nicely in the end. I wonder what happened to the cabbage nose stamps.

Red Nose Day is a regular charity telethon fund raising event. The idea came from Bernard in response to Darren and Helen Hill`s obsession to collect all the rare DW stamps, and to do this they purchased 450 quids of LBEs. They then organised a competition to guess how many of each stamp they had bought, for a donation to a mental health charity. Bernard said that anyone who participates and makes a 10 pound donation would receive a Red nose stamp, and the three winners of the competition received a Red Nose FDC. 98 of the 100 Red Nose Patricians were claimed. The stamps were issued in March 2005.

I believe that these were printed as sheetlets of 14, filling the gap below the sheets of $1 TOA stamps. Just 8 sheetlets would have been required, but a couple of unusual items have turned up. A few years ago a tete-beche pair appeared on a well known auction site and was sold for a considerable sum. A strip of three stamps is known of. More unusual was a strip of five imperforate stamps. I confess I do not know the source or the background to these. In order these are a standard Penny Patrician, A Red-nosed Patrician, a Penny Red, a Red-nosed Eminence Gris, and an inverted Penny Patrician with the D and W inverted in relation to the rest of the stamp. These are either test prints ...... or else someone was bored.